# Ask the Irish Guy?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-irish-guy/160939>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 12, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-irish-guy/160939 "2003-03-12T21:19:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-irish-guy/160939/61 "2003-03-22T08:17:26Z")

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Another giveaway is than many Northern Irish people use “whenever” for “when”.

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**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-irish-guy/160939/62 "2003-03-22T09:14:21Z")

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If they say “tree” instead of “three”, they’re from the south.

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**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-irish-guy/160939/63 "2003-03-22T11:07:23Z")

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I’ve been to the Dún Aengus and want to know who in the hell would have wanted to invade the Aran Islands in the first place. Also, why would anyone want to live on the Aran Islands today??

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**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-irish-guy/160939/64 "2003-03-22T14:16:17Z")

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What about all those BBC-TV correspondents (like Lyse Doucet, for example) that almost in between Irish and American with their flat vowels and hard Rs? Is that a natural accent from a particular region or something that’s been polished up for TV?

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**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-irish-guy/160939/65 "2003-03-22T17:21:25Z")

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Erm, Lyse Doucet is Canadian.

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**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-irish-guy/160939/66 "2003-03-22T19:36:41Z")

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D’oh!

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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-irish-guy/160939/67 "2003-03-22T23:18:51Z")

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Irishgirl, even the names of Irish places are poetic. Loved your description!

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**Author:** ![miamouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@miamouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miamouse)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-irish-guy/160939/68 "2003-03-24T20:15:53Z")

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Thanks, **irishgirl**!

Any insight as to why the hair is always so short? (beautiful heads of hair and beautiful color, cropped short like a man.) It gets pretty cold here, so warm weather can’t be the reason.

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